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As it turns out, tacky musical numbers relating to smartphones can be used to defame brands just as much as promote them. British rapper GT Solo has recently published a song called “BB is Dead”, which rags on the BlackBerry’s camera, GPS, internet browsing, app selection, and obsession with BBM. Though Android gets some props,…
It’s a shame that the BlackBerry PlayBook didn’t launch with a calendar app of its own without the help of a RIM smartphone paired via Bridge, but it looks like a solid stand-in has become available until an official standalone app lands this summer. Tungle released their cloud-based calendar app over the weekend for the…
The BlackBerry PlayBook has had some time to simmer in North America, and now it’s ready for Europe. RIM’s first tablet will be available at a variety of UK retailers, like Carphone Warehouse, Best Buy, Phones 4U, Dixons, Currys, and PC World. Pricing will sit at £399 for the 16 GB model, £479 for the…
After a lengthy beta process, Slacker is now offering on-demand mobile music streaming for $10/month. Previously, Slacker would simply generate stations based on your tastes, and let you cache songs on your phone, skip tracks as much as you want, and get rid of ads for $3.99/month. In addition to those features, the new Slacker…
Staples has issued an internal memo detailing a recall of some 935 16 GB BlackBerry PlayBook tablets. There isn’t any info on what’s wrong specifically, but it does say that faulty units may not operate at all. To help the recall process, there’s a list of serial numbers of affected PlayBooks. The PlayBook is RIM’s…
A single screenshot of what looks like the next version of BlackBerry App World is making the rounds. Though the layout sticks to the tried and true feature carousel, there are some obvious graphical upgrades here. An easily-accessible search bar at the top is a welcome addition, and bigger icons at the bottom to access…
Pyramid Research has just released a paper forecasting the smartphone operating market share through to 2015 based on Q1’s numbers. With Nokia’s involvement in Windows Phone, Pyramid sees Microsoft’s relatively new mobile OS beating out iPhone, BlackBerry, and even Android by as early as 2013. This is based on their research across worldwide markets, and…
Shape Services was showing off a new geolocation feature for their chat client, IM+, back at CES. That update has gone live on iPhone, and is available as a free open beta on BlackBerry. then feature is called Neighbors, and instead of just being a way of keeping tabs on trusted sources that you already…
A quick shot of the BlackBerry 9860 (code-named Monaco or Monza) has snuck out recently, giving us a close-up of the hardware keys along the bottom. RIM has two touchscreen slates on the roadmap, and the Touch 9860 will be the higher-end among them. The Curve Touch will be a bit smaller, but the hardware…
Those of you into music, and more specifically music videos, will have probably heard of Vevo. They offer over 25,000 free legal Flash-powered music videos, namely on YouTube, thanks to partnerships with Universal and Sony. Some welcome news out of BlackBerry World last week was that they’re going to be launching a PlayBook app to…